A handout picture provided by the office of Iran’s supreme leader on April 30, 2018, shows Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waving to a crowd on Labour Day HO (Iranian Supreme Leader’s Website/AFP) The reactions to Trump’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal have been divided On Wednesday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei slammed US President Trump’s decision…
Syrian TV reported the attack CREDIT: GETTY Iranian soldiers were killed in an Israeli strike in Syria carried out just hours after Donald Trump’s announcement that the US was pulling out of the Iran nuclear agreement, according to monitors. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Israeli jets had targeted a weapons depot near al-Kiswah, a…
President Trump rolled out his much-anticipated decision to “withdraw” from the Iran nuclear deal, in keeping with a longtime campaign promise. The president claimed Tuesday that there is Israeli intelligence proving Iran is not in compliance with the agreement. Mr. Trump said he fears the 2015 deal will allow the Iranian regime to amass nuclear…
“The sanctions lifting will only occur as Iran takes the steps agreed, including addressing possible military dimensions.” That was State Department spokesman John Kirby in June 2015, speaking as negotiations for the Iran nuclear deal were wrapping up. But Tehran did not “take the steps agreed.” The deal was founded on a lie. Two lies,…
Iran vows revenge after airstrikes target its assets in Syria There’s no broker: U.S. is sidelined, Russia not ‘in control’ There have been coups and revolutions, external invasions and proxy conflicts, but the Middle East hasn’t seen a head-to-head war between major regional powers since the 1980s. There’s a growing risk that one is about…
For the first time since the beginning of the Russian intervention in Syria, Putin may find himself in direct confrontation with Israel. Russian President Putin and Prime Minister Netanyahu shake hands at an event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Moscow in January, 2018.\ MAXIM SHEMETOV/ REUTERS When Russia becomes the U.S.S.R. on steroids, Israel…
ANKARA – Iran said on Monday cooperation between Saudi Arabia and the United States will further destabilize the Middle East, a senior official said, adding that Tehran will continue its presence in the region despite Washington’s pressure to limit its influence. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who met Saudi King Salman in Riyadh on a…
“Iran is not bluffing … Technically, we are fully prepared to enrich uranium higher than we used to produce before the deal was reached… I hope Trump comes to his senses and stays in the deal.” Iran’s head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi. (photo credit: REUTERS) ANKARA – Iran has the…